FILE PHOTO - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during a conference in Istanbul, Turkey, September 25, 2017. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
HABUR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Iraqi Kurds would go hungry if his country halts the flow of trucks and oil across the border with northern Iraq and warned that all military and economic measures were on the table against its neighbour.
The comments, some of the harshest yet from Erdogan about Monday's referendum in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, came as Iraqi troops joined the Turkish army for military exercises near Turkey's border with northern Iraq.
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